Vision Premium Sharing Formulas. Employee and dependent premiums for exam-only vision coverage shall be paid at 100% by the Employer. Employee and dependent premiums for exam and hardware coverage shall be paid at twenty percent (20%) by the Employer and eighty percent (80%) by the employee. Vision coverage may be elected independently from medical coverage, and if dependent coverage is elected, employees and their dependents must be enrolled in the same plan. This provision is inapplicable to Employees and dependents electing medical coverage through the Xxxxxx Permanente HMO so long as hardware coverage is included with that coverage, as such, those enrolled in Kaiser may not elect independent hardware vision coverage.
